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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 5 months

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THE NEW, RISING SOUND OF THE STREETS GETS FRONT PAGE COVERAGE IN 1980.

PIC INFO: Spotlight on Jeff "Stinky" Turner of East London Oi! punk band COCKNEY REJECTS, on the cover of Reading, UK ‘zine "Grinding Halt" #5, c. 1980.

"The COCKNEY REJECTS must be one of the most earthly, solid punk bands to have arisen in the last couple of years, and one of few to present punk in the way it should be heard. Nowadays bands use all sorts of gadgets which detract from the spontaneity asnd simplicity of the music. THE REJECTS, however resist this and are writing and playing songs in the way groups did some three years ago. This is what they had to say after their set supporting SLAUGHTER."

-- GRINDING HALT punk fanzine #5, Raeding, UK, c. 1980

GRINDING ZINE: "Is the new single (Greatest Cockney Rip Off) a reference to Jimmy Pursey?"

Micky Geggus: No, well it's a bit of a piss take really, like he goes round calling himself the great cockney cowboy and all that but he never goes near the place,y' know what I mean?

GRINDING HALT: "Did you have an argument with him?"

MG: "Yeah, a bit — let's drop it though 'cos he isn't really worth it. l've had enough of him."

GRINDING HALT: "How did you feel about the press the album got?"

MG: "Well, I was happy with the album and that's all that really matters to me. I reckon it's a good album, and that's good enough for me, the press ain't all that important — Gary Bushell gave it a good write up though."

GRINDING HALT: "How did the Gary Bushell link come about?"

MG : "Well, basically I sent him a tape and he liked it and it all went from there. But he had to choose between writing and managing and he chose writing 'cos you can't do both properly at the same time."

Source: https://standupandspit.wordpress.com/2016/08/15/cockney-rejects-1980.

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linksvorne · 6 months

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117. DENIM. 2023-10-14 @ Venster99 (1st show; w/ Cuero, Parole 80 & Parasite Dreams)

#denim #oi!#oi! punk #hc punk #hardcore punk #no fuss fanzine #venster99 #linksvorne

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randomvarious · 1 year

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Terminus City - "Landlord Bastard" The East Coast of Oi! 1999 Oi! Punk

Plays: 2.2K+ on Spotify // 300+ on YouTube

If you've been following me for over a year now, you probably know that a big component of this blog at one point was to present songs by mostly obscure acts that I felt were deserving of much more love and attention than they'd ever received. I've said it many times before and I'll say it again here: one major goal of this blog is to dig up all this slept-on shit and ultimately, little by little, piece together a thorough and mostly untold and unknown history of music.

And I think various artist compilations and DJ mixes are a pretty neat avenue for accomplishing that goal. They can be retrospective and present the big, era-defining hits; they can be samplers that show the best of what a label has to offer; and most importantly, they can be ephemerally contemporaneous and provide a snapshot of what a certain slice of music was like during a highly specific period of time. Those latter ones seem to capture those raw, authentic, and pure little moments of history like nothing else out there really can and it's those types of compilations and DJ mixes that I tend to derive the most joy out of.

The simple fact of the matter is that almost all music is ephemeral and also cloistered. It stays in its scene and it gets some brief play within that scene and then it just pretty much vanishes into thin air, never to really be thought of again. But of course, it doesn't actually vanish; it just sits there on dust-collecting vinyl, tapes, CDs, 8-tracks, hard drives, and iPods that haven't been touched in years and it also hides in the dark corners of YouTube and streaming services, almost totally ignored by ~[<{the algorithm}>]~.

So, here I am, like the guy at the beach with his trusty metal detector in hand, recognizing the fact that there's all this cool, decades-old shit just laying out there that's barely ever been exposed to the masses, just wanting someone to get the same level of pleasure from it like I have.

I love so much music, I love discovering all these little gems, and I love showing them to other people. And now I'm happy to say that I'm gonna be writing about individual songs once again. I'm gonna be providing you with killer tunes that you've more than likely never heard before by acts you've more than likely never heard of, and I'm going to give you their backstories and provide their proper context. Simply put, this shit deserves to be more known than it currently is and you should know how it all fits into this vast, woven quilt of music history.

So, without further ado, let's fuckin' go, shall we?

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Today's song post is about landlords. We sure do hate 'em, don't we folks? We fork over a hefty portion of our paycheck every month to them just to keep a roof over our heads (that's fucked up, isn't it?) and then they do little to nothing in return to make that payment ever seem worth it. They're never there when you need them when something needs fixing, so what's the point of them in the first place? Why do we let them get away with all the scummy, underhanded shit that they pull? Hey, someone should write a song about these bastards!

Well, here's a group that did just that. Introducing a relatively short-lived punk band from Atlanta called Terminus City. Critic Mesquita Borges provides some background on 'em:

Assembled in 1998, Atlanta-based Terminus City endowed frenzied conceptions of hardcore punk, taking on Oi! style's most dashing heritage. Associating pushy guitar sets with raging vocals, the squad crushed the local punk rock scene and quickly began to be named along with the best Oi!-styled teams. Formed by Frank (vocals), Guillermo (guitar), Wes (bass), and Chris [drums], the band started off by playing a series of concerts in the Atlanta area, being the opening act for bands such as Patriot or the Dropkick Murphys. Recording a series of singles and appearing at the Arizona Street Punk Festival in 1999, Terminus City gradually began to congregate a respectable fan base. During late 1999, the crew recorded what turned out to be their debut full-length, Justice Isn't Always Fair, which hit the record stores in 2000.

So, '99 is when Terminus City made their first releases, which consisted of a 7-inch of their own, plus three other 7-inches that they split with other bands. And in addition to those releases, they also ended up contributing a pair of exclusives to two different compilations that year as well: "You Shook Me All Night Long" for Oi Oi - A Tribute to AC/DC and "Landlord Bastard" for The East Coast of Oi!

Now, oi! as a genre has something of a checkered past. It's a working-class kind of punk rock, but it's had some strains of fascism, white nationalism, and reactionary politics within its ranks. And you'll even find some of that grossness on the East Coast of Oi! comp itself, with a song like "Welfare Case" by Squiggy. That's a song I'll never write praiseworthy things about, and, by the way, Squiggy, didn't Clinton pretty much obliterate welfare by the time you'd released your dumb song anyway? Find a fresher shitty thing to write about!

Anyway, I don't know the full discography of Terminus City, but if "Landlord Bastard" is any indication, then it doesn't seem like these guys fell into that bad strain of oi!. Landlords are typically an enemy to working class politics, so I don't think you'd find a right-wing band lamenting about them. But I guess I could be wrong 🤷‍♂️.

Anyway, it's never *just* the message that'll get me to love a song; the music itself's gotta be good too, of course. And Guillermo's guitar tone as well as the main squealing riff that he sports with it throughout the verses on this song are both nothing short of spectacular; pretty simple in execution, but also catchy as hell, and serving as a nice contrast to both Wes' deep, accompanying bassline and Frank's gravelly vocals too. Blast it in front of your landlord and if they give you any guff about it, then crank it up a notch with this classic from The Coup (YouTube) 😈.

Also, if you like this song, I included it on this broad 90s punk playlist that consists only of tunes that I’ve come across by way of compilations. And it’s also on YouTube and YouTube Music, with a few more added bonus tracks that aren’t on Spotify.

Feels really good to be fully back ☺!

#oi! punk #oi punk #oi!#oi #punk #punk rock #rock #music #90s #90s music #90's #90's music

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dankalbumart · 2 years

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Tanked and Pogoed by Blanks 77 Radical Records 1997 Punk Rock / Oi! / Alternative Rock / Pop-Punk

#punk rock #punk #rock #oi!#oi #oi punk #oi! punk #alternative rock #alternative #alternative music #alt rock #alt #alt music #pop punk #music #90s #90s music #90's #90's music

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the-cat-and-the-birdie · 8 months

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Hobies is definitely that boyfriend that puts on Noirs glasses every chance he gets

then sits there and waits for Noir to notice with a dumbass smile on his face like

'Oi babes. Oi. Look. I'm u innit'

#'Oi babes. Oi. Look.'#'I'm u innit'#THEY'RE SILLY BILLIES #noirpunk #noir punk #spiderman #atsv #hobie brown #marvel #spider man #spider punk #spiderpunk #across the spiderverse #spidernoir #spider noir #peter benjamin parker

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haveyouheardthisband · 2 months

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#Celtic Punk #Punk Rock #Oi!#Americana #Folk Punk #Folk Rock #1990s #2000s #USA #poll #Spotify

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skinheadforlife · 7 months

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SHARP SKINHEAD Lazslo Lothar, Belgium.

#skinhead #skinhead culture #sharp #sharpskin #sharp skinhead #belgique #belgie #belgium #skin #skins #oi!#ska #punk #lazslo lothar #lazslo #lothar #boots #gay skinhead #skin maker

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jewish-culture-is · 1 month

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Jewish culture is loving jewish punk! Yidcore and Moshiach Oi!

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#jewish culture is #judaism #jewish #jumblr #jewish punk #yidcore #moshiach oi #jewish music

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combthecombel · 1 year

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Since 2020 I’ve been putting together playlists full of my favorite punk releases.

and here’s Combel’s 2022 Punk Mix!

hope ya check it out and find some new bands to follow :)

#combthecombel #punk rock #punk #garage rock #post punk #egg punk #crossover thrash #hardcore punk #synth punk #chain punk #street punk #oi

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 4 months

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STRAIGHT OUTTA SOUTH LONDON.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on South London punk rock/Oi! band, THE BUSINESS (Nick Cunningham, Martin Smith, Steve Kent, and Micky Fitz) in Bermondsey, South London, England, c. June 1981. 📸: Martin Dean.

PIC #2: THE BUSINESS live, c. 1981 - Rock in peace, Micky Fitz, another legend lost. 📸: Andy Phillips.

Sources: www.picuki.com/media/3269983851369225576 (Picuki 2x).